Advanced software to help information professionals analyse search results from scientific literature and patent databases and visualise patterns and trends in the research landscape
Chemical Abstracts Service and Fiz Karlsruhe have announced the release of new software, STN AnaVist, that will give information professionals a variety of ways to analyse and view information found in scientific literature and patents, giving them greater value from search results and better support for critical business decisions.
The co-operators of the STN network will make the announcement during the DGI-Online meeting in Frankfurt/Main, Germany (23-25 May 23) and the PIUG annual meeting in Alexandria, VA (21 - 26 May 2005).
STN International is the premier online service for science and technology, offering a collection of more than 220 high-quality online databases.
STN is currently used by thousands of organisations worldwide.
Capabilities available in STN AnaVist, to be released this summer, were developed in response to the expressed needs of information professionals for advanced tools to help them analyse search results from scientific literature and patent databases and visualise patterns and trends in the research landscape.
Now, searchers will be able to assimilate and present information more effectively to support competitive intelligence, research and development strategy and management decision-making.
"STN AnaVist creates an interactive workspace to interpret patent and research data in new and innovative ways.
"It allows users to identify relationships between the data.
"The features enhance views on developments in research and technology thus providing most valuable information for business critical decisions," says Sabine Brunger-Weilandt, managing director and CEO of Fiz Karlsruhe.
"Through pictures and landscapes, based on the traditional research results, our users will gain exciting new perspectives and insights - a new vista of scientific knowledge.
"The information challenge of the 21st century is not information access, but information utilisation.
"STN AnaVist is an important first step from the STN partnership to bring new technologies to bear on this challenge," said CAS president Robert Massie.
"Using results from CAS databases and others on STN, information users will now be able to view the competitive landscape, visualise where research is heading, and receive a much greater return on their investment in information".
Key features of STN AnaVist include analysis of information from three leading scientific resources: CAS's CAplus database of scientific literature and patent information, and the USPatFull and PCTFull patent databases containing the full text of US and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patents.
It also features an interactive workspace displaying a range of data visualisations, dynamically integrated, including cluster and contour maps, histograms, and co-occurrence matrices, harmonisation and standardisation of data prior to visualisation using algorithms based on intellectual data analysis, a data grouping feature that helps to minimise scattering of results by permitting editing and customising data elements across the databases, flexible tools for deeper analysis of data subsets, and two options for creating results for analysis: integrated concept search capability within STN AnaVist, and import of search results into STN AnaVist from the popular STN Express software.
All of these powerful options for data analysis are available in a modern, easy-to-use interface.
STN International is an online service for science and technology, offering a collection of more than 220 databases.
The service is provided jointly through a North American service centre, operated by CAS in Columbus, Ohio; a European service centre, operated by Fiz Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany; and a Japanese service centre, operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo.
An international scientific service institution, Fiz Karlsruhe is dedicated to providing information services and solutions for both information management and scholarly communication.
